WWDTM: Kali Reis
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From NPR and WVZ Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR News Quiz. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm the boy so soothing. |
| 0:13.9 | Lullabies listen to me to fall asleep. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Bill Curtis, and here's your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 0:25.1 | Peter Saga. |
| 0:26.4 | Thank you, Bill. |
| 0:27.2 | Thank you, everybody. |
| 0:28.6 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:30.2 | So good to be with you. |
| 0:31.8 | You do have a great show of you today. |
| 0:33.3 | Later on, we're going to be talking to Kaylee Reese, a champion boxer who seemingly almost |
| 0:38.4 | overnight became an acclaimed and Emmy-nominated actor starring in HBO's True Detective. |
| 0:43.8 | She's now starring in the upcoming movie Mercy. |
| 0:46.5 | We assume that she learns her lines by punching them. |
| 0:50.4 | If you'd like to try your hand at a non-contact competition, give us a call to play our games. |
| 0:55.4 | That's 1-3-8-8-8-8-2-4. That's 1-88-8-8-2-4. It's time to welcome our first listener-contestant. Hi, you're on Wait-Wait-Wait, don't tell me. Hi, Peter. My name is Benjamin, and I'm calling from Boston, Massachusetts. Boston. I spent a lot of time in Boston, one of my favorite places. What do you do there? |
| 1:11.0 | Well, I work as a computational chemist at a scientific software. Boston. I spent a lot of time in Boston, one of my favorite places. What do you do there? |
| 1:17.1 | Well, I work as a computational chemist at a scientific software and discovery company called Schrodinger. |
| 1:20.2 | Typical Boston guy, am I right? |
| 1:27.8 | Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. That's great. Well, welcome to the show. Benjamin. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. |
| 1:33.9 | First up, she's host of the TikTok series, Boy Room, found wherever you might watch your short form videos. |
| 1:35.3 | It's Rachel Koster. |
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